Exploring the archaeology of Ben Lomond Ben Lomond is one of Scotland’s most famous mountains, lying on the edge of the ...

Last month’s column explored prehistoric mines, and this month I will follow up on the topic by visiting medieval and modern ...

The picturesque landscape around Loch Lomond has long been celebrated for its natural beauty, including the slopes of Ben ...

In last month’s column, I explored Palaeolithic important prehistoric sites not just in Britain but in the whole of western Europe. Here I will follow up on that review by moving south into Kent and ...

Unusually for my column, I will start in this instance at the most recent mention of Roman Lincoln and then work backwards chronologically through past coverage in the magazine. CA 421 (April 2025) ...

The ‘hare mosaic’, featured as the cover of CA 29, was found in a house in Insula XII on the eastern edge of Corinium. An update on the excavations happening in Cirencester, as well as news of the ...

Over the course of eight decades, at least 14 separate hoards of Iron Age metalwork have been recovered from a single field at Snettisham in Norfolk. Now, following the publication of a new book ...

Last month I began a tour around the final county of the UK that I had yet to visit in these pages: Wiltshire. I began in the north and headed south as far as the Vale of Pewsey. This month I will ...

Overlooking the impressive Iron Age earthworks of Warham Camp, towards the sea. Immediately to the left of the monument runs the River Stiffkey, which was rerouted in the 18th century, destroying a ...

Tre’r Ceiri hillfort, on the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd, was one of the first in Wales to be recorded by antiquaries. Noting its cluster of huts, Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) described it as ‘the most ...

Did ‘the Anglo-Saxon migrations’ take place, and were Romano-British leaders replaced by those of Germanic descent? Susan Oosthuizen’s new book, The Emergence of the English, is a call to rethink our ...

The traditional story of Iona’s early medieval monastery ends in tragedy and bloodshed, with the religious community wiped out by vicious Viking raiders. Increasingly, though, the archaeological and ...